Dmitry Medvedev will replace Putin as the third president of the Russian Federation today with promises to fight corruption and inflation. However, with Putin as Prime Minister, Medvedev is certain to face more challenges and a possible clash over who...

Tropical cyclone Nargis has brought incalculable disaster in Burma killing around 15,000, and counting. The military junta has issued a rare appeal for international emergency assistance. The perfect storm signals a political upheaval with perils of...

Bolivia’s richest region of Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy from central government aiming to give local authorities more power over resources. Majority of the states are in favor of similar referendums apparently putting an...

Major world powers are offering Iran a new package of incentives to freeze its nuclear activities. All kinds of sanctions and incentives have already failed to persuade Iran to roll back its uranium enrichment program and apparently, it has now become...

Moblf aims to bring Twitter like SMS functionality via its new FriendFeed app. The service uses text messaging to track 5 updates from your FriendFeed stream. Soon you’ll be able to reply to your friend’s activities via SMS in the form of comments....

According to data furnished by US government experts, world witnessed 658 suicide attacks in the last year alone; which is double the attacks made 25 years back. The surprising trend has gripped the whole world, is spreading to all continents and has...

Flat, parallel sheets of carbon atoms in the graphite of pencil lead have been peeled apart by the scientists to yield a sheet a single atom thick that has peculiar properties which made the fundamental feat possible.

Measuring 65,000 sq. ft., this is BMW’s one of the biggest billboards in Europe. We R.Sings has tried to make it a real brand ad by using wheels, lighting, body panels and other parts from BMW. Apart from the mammoth size, the full size M3...

Foreign observers invited into the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, reported a city badly scarred by days of unrest and a heavy Chinese security presence still highly visible on the streets.

Google didn’t have to win any spectrum last week to get what it wanted out of the auction—open access to the resulting wireless networks for third-parties. (How Verizon Wireless and AT&T will coöperate in that regard remains to be seen.) But...